The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-12-09
The Fourteenth Annual Convention of
the National Homan-s Christian
Temperance Tniou-Sashyilie-
Tenn. Nov. 1921.

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welcome to the National Woman's Chris
| tian Temperance Union Convention. Three
hundred and forty-ouc officers and dele
gates, representing thirty-eight States and
Territories, met in counsel together over
matters Of home interest, each with indie
T. pendent thought, bat united plan, is the
/ finest illustration ever seen of Victor
Hugo's prophetic utterance. "The Nine
teenth Century is Woman's Century"
/ Here ministers, doctors, lawyers, journal
/ lists, teachers, experienced home-kcepers.
| philanthrophsts, and cultivated young
/ ladies, each bring their special gifts and
/ graces, and in the exchange Of thought
each bears to the individual work at home
something of the general knowledge and
| inspiration. Not only is the north and
south, tie east and west liere represented.
but different nationalities, knowing no
| dividing line. Puudita Ramabai, the high
caste Hindu widow, pleads for her sisters
| in India; Mrs, Tunstall, Of Indian Terri
tory, voices the cry Other Cherokee mates,
that whisky may be bound, and the Indian
/ wigwam be free; and the eolored Unions
! of Tennessee and Alabama organized into
/ State Societies, have graduates of Fisk
/ University to represent them.
Nor is the National Union more differ
entlated from other organizations in the
many lines of work-forty or more dis
tinct departments, embraced under the
/ general heads or eyangelistie, educational.
social, preventive, and legal, each with q
skilled leader at its head, and duplicated
in State and local Unions-than in its
National President. Miss Frances Z. VIII
lard who holds a most intimate relation
10 all these departments, and has heart
knowledge Of all the needs Of humanity.
OF her skill as a presiding officer the Nash
vile american has this kind editorial
word: "The manner in which she handled
the Convention, disposing Of questions as
they came, and always using the exact
word required in parliamentary proceed
ings, attracted the attention of the gentle
men present who were familiar with par
liamentary law. 1t is, perhaps, not saying
too much to say that Mr.. Randall, Mr..
Blaine, or Senator Harris, the three best
presiding officers that the country has had
since the war, would not have shown mole
ability and tact in the chair than Miss
Willard did
Watkins Hall had been secured for the
meeting OF the Convention. but when the
delegates were seated, there was small
room for visitors. When the need for a
larger space reached the authorities Of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church = the
largest in the city, holding about twelve
huudred-they fastened to offer its use,
which was gladly accepted, and banners
ard bannerettes flowers and women, were
speedily transferred.
1liss Willard annual address, the morn
ing of the 10th, was remarkable for breadth
of vision and depth of human sympathy.
"The bugle of your advance strikes the
keynote Of the Church universal, and the
drum beat of your hearts, now throbbing
round the world predicts the day when
the nations shall form one universal broth
erhood Your white ribbon prophesies
the white flag Of peace that shall yet wave
at the masthead Of every ship and from
the dome OF every capitol upon the globe.
For nothing less las God set in motion the
home-hosts Of all nations, With the prayer
of faith, and the badge Of snow, and the
song of victory singing"
WCuId that yya oGD Ill r,iattt-a tlo (Fc,,
yention at this opening hour Miss Will
lard S power Of riyeting all eyes and hold
ing all senses as she brought fact and de-
claraiion and prophetic utterance in clear
resounding words; her eompatriots gather
ed about her-the silver haired mother
Thompson. leader OF the Crusade in Hills
boro, O., in 1873. Hannah Whitall Smith,
the Quaker evangelist, Mother Wallace,
the Deborah of the franchise movement.
and Ramabai, in native costume, and be-
fore them the tables crowded with report
ers for the press of Nashville aud other
cities, and the audience that crowded pew
and aisle and outer hall, SO still that a pin
fall might have been heard.
One said truly, Gould We, even score
Of years ago, dreamed Of this for NO
| man -
Prominent among the features Of the
Convention were the Bible Readings each
morning by Hannah Whitall Smith The
/ keynote of them all is sounded in this one
sentence: Love fulfills all other laws.
but it must be the kind which is spelled
! love. not s-e-l-Eis-h-n-e-s-s" The vel
comes to the Convention, and the responses
thereto, were given the evening Of the 10Th
in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
| GOV. Taylor, on behalf Of the State, and
Mrs. Lide Meriwether, on behalf Of the w.
c. T. L., cordially bid them welcome, and
Mrs J. K Barney as cordially accepted.
That the broadest liberty is accorded
members Of the ". c. T. {. is proved by
the following bylaw passed on Thursday
morning:
''No State Union shall be bound by any
principle espoused or plan devised by the
National W. G. T. L., except that all
State auxiliares must subscribe to the to-
tai abstinence pledge, and to the Constitu-
ton Of the National"